Switching current versus magnetoresistance in magnetic multilayer nanopillars

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 84, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1516-1518

  Urazhdin, S ^a   Birge, Norman O ^a   Pratt Jr , W P ^a   Bass, J ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC TRILAYERS; SWITCHING CURRENTS;

ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; ELECTRODES; HYSTERESIS; MAGNETIC FILMS; MAGNETIZATION; MAGNETORESISTANCE; MULTILAYERS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; POLARIZATION;

SWITCHING;

EID: 1642619658     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1651645     Document Type: Article

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